Responsibility to Protect and the International Human Rights Agenda: Tensions and Opportunities

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Davies, SE
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Since the 2005 World Summit at the United Nations General Assembly, unmember states have continued to note acceptance of their individual and col-lective responsibility to protect people from the gravest abuses of basic human rights – genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. In 2009, the first un Secretary-General’s Report on the Responsibility to Protect provided a blueprint for realizing this protection: the responsibility of states to protect, the responsibility of the international community to assist with protection, and the responsibility of the international community to provide timely and decisive response when the state was manifestly failing to protect. The Secretary-General pointed out that the best approach to protection was via a focus on prevention – a focus shared by new un Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres. States that protected their populations’ rights, took measures to en-sure inclusion, address rights violations, and uphold the principle of inclusion were innately stronger in fulfilling their protection responsibilities. The report went on to outline the necessary relationship between the realization of hu-man rights obligations, necessity of the un Human Rights institutions and le-gal instruments, and the responsible state:

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Global Responsibility to Protect

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9

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3

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Political science

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Davies, SE, Responsibility to Protect and the International Human Rights Agenda: Tensions and Opportunities, Global Responsibility to Protect, 2017, 9 (3), pp. 239-242

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